Bureau



(No Model.)

0. D. MILES & E. P. SGOLLAY.

BUREAU.

No. 409,853. PatentedAug. 27, 1889.

WITNESSES Afro/my UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

ORRIN D. MILES AND EDlVARD F. SCOLLAY, OF TEMPLETON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUREAU.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,853, dated August 27, 18 89.

Application filed March 5, 1889- Serial No. 301,936. (No model.)

To all whom it nwoy concern.-

Be it known that we, ORRIN D. MILES and EDWARD F. SCOLLAY, of Templeton, in the county of WVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Bureau, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in furnitnre-such as bureaus, commodes, wash-stands, chitfoniers, and the like,and has for its object to provide furniture of this kind so constructed that it may be readily taken apart and compactly folded for transportation.

The invention consists in furniture of the kind above mentioned, constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a case of drawers constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof.

To illustrate the manner of carrying out the invention, a case of drawers is shown having its framed panel ends 1 connected to its back 2 byhinges The front posts l of the framed ends 1 are connected together at the bottom by abase-board 5, detachably secured to the posts 4by means of angle-plates 6 and screws '7.

Extending between the front posts 4 and the rear posts 8 of the framed ends 1 are strips 9, having their ends glued or otherwise secured in angular grooves 10 in posts 4 and 8, and provided with strips or cleats 11, having their ends overlapping the posts 4 and 8, and arranged at suitable distances above one another to serve as slides or supports for the drawers 12. The cover or top 13 of the case of drawers is detachably secured to the ends 1 by means of angle-plates 6 and screws 7, connecting the top 13 with the posts 4 and 8, the latter being formed with a recess 14, in which is located one arm of an angle-plate 6.

It will be seen that in the foregoing-described construction partitions and blocking are dispensed with, thereby simplifying the construction and lessening the cost of manufacture.

By means of this invention the case of drawers may be readily taken apart and compactly folded for transportation, the drawers being removed. from the casing, the top 13 and the base-strip 5 being detached by unscrewing the angle-plates (i, and the hinged ends 1 folded against the back 2.

Any other similar article of furniture having drawers or shelves and a casing constructed as hereinbefore set forth may be likewise taken apart and folded up.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A case of drawers formed with the framed panel ends 1, having front posts 4, rear posts 8, and strips 9, extending between posts 4: and 8, and having cleats 11, serving as slides for drawers, a back 2, connected to ends 1 by hinges 3, and a detachable top 13 and front base-board 5, connected to ends 1 by angleplates 6 and screws 7, substantially as shown and described.

ORRIN D. MILES. EDWARD F. SCOLLAY.

lVitnesses:

PERCIVAL BLODGETT, FRANK E. JOHNSON. 

